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Learning, teaching and interaction

The strategic core field of learning, teaching and interaction examines these phenomena in teacher education at different stages of life and in various environments, while also looking at their psychological processes and mechanisms.

Multidisciplinary and in-depth research

Global and societal changes and transitions make research-based understanding of learning, teaching and interaction essential

How do digitalization, multilingualism and the need for continuous learning influence learning practices, teaching and interaction between people? What factors have an impact on the present state of basic education, and how to influence it in the education system and society?

Using multidisciplinary approaches and a combination of methods, we can gain comprehensive knowledge about the phenomena and related underlying factors in this core field. Through longitudinal studies, we can monitor the effects of school transitions as well as early factors from birth in the learning of literacy and mathematical skills as well as children’s self-esteem as a learner. 

Those factors identified as affecting learning are taken as targets for interventions and experimental research, which can help support learners throughout their educational paths and at different stages of life.

JYU’s unique longitudinal settings and data sets enable the extensive exploration of the backgrounds of learning and learning difficulties.
Learning and interaction are necessary for renewal, creativity and change.
Vice Dean, Professor Jarmo Hämäläinen, Faculty of Education and Psychology

Research to support decision-making

Jarmo Hämäläinen
Professor Jarmo Hämäläinen is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Education and Psychology.

Extensive international comparisons and evaluations of education systems reveal learning outcomes of children, youth and adults as well as factors related to studies, the home and school environment. We can use this research to monitor changes in the education system and provide information to support decision-making. 

Our research on the processes of interaction investigates technology-supported learning and interaction, multidimensional interaction in therapy settings and its effects on behavioural changes, and various issues related to family dynamics. 

Contact details of Jarmo Hämäläinen

Collaboration

In our core field of learning, teaching and interaction, we cooperate closely with various partners, including ministries, the Finnish National Agency for Education, regional education providers, schools, and companies. One of our aims is to provide research-based knowledge in support of educational decision-making.

Research into learning, teaching and interaction also covers a wide range of themes and applications:

  • the effect of remote communication tools in interaction
  • how learning environments should be designed 
  • the functionality of digital tools for learning 
  • learning Finnish as a second language as well as the learning of foreign languages

Key operators of the strategic core field

Research at the Faculty of Information Technology

Our key research areas form one of the strategic core fields in the Ģֱ's research profile: Information technology and the human in the knowledge society.

Research at the Department of Education

The Department of Education conducts multidisciplinary, nationally and internationally networked research covering a wide range of individual, community and societal issues in education, training, learning and teaching.

Research at the Department of Chemistry

The diverse research interests at the Department of Chemistry are categorised into four Core Research Areas — Functional Molecules and Materials, Chemical Nanoscience, Circular Economy and Chemistry Education.

Research at the Department of Language and Communication Studies

Multidisciplinary research responds to the challenge of society to understand the diverse and changing linguistic and communicative landscapes of our environment.

Research at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences

Research on physical activity, health and well-being at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences covers the whole human life cycle, from early childhood to old age.

Research at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies

The research of the Department uses the points of view of culture, art and music to assess topical global developments such as digitalisation and technologisation, multiculturalisation, social polarisation and rootlessness.

Research at the Department of Teacher Education

The Department of Teacher Education conducts multidisciplinary, nationally, and internationally networked research covering a wide range of individual, community and societal issues in education, training, learning and teaching.

Research at the Department of Psychology

Research at the Department of Psychology focuses on the foundations and development of the human mind, learning and psychological interventions.

Research at Centre for Applied Language Studies

The Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) is a research unit in the Ģֱ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences , providing research-based information on language education and language-related phenomena.

Research groups related to the strategic core field

Research group

JYULed - JYUnit for Learning and Digital Education

We research and support education, learning and teaching in a variety of collaborative and digital environments.
Research group

Active Mind Lab

In the Active Mind Lab, we study how the brain processes information; in particular, we study communication through speech and facial expressions. The name of our group reflects our aim to produce information that can help promote effective learning and t
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Bilingual pedagogy / Tvåspråkig pedagogik / Kaksikielinen pedagogiikka

The members of this research group are examining how bi- and multilingual practices can be used as a resource for language learning and teaching in Early Childhood Education and Care contexts.
Research group

Changing Brain

Investigating brain changes throughout the lifespan
Research group

Child Functioning Lab

Child Functioning Studies
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Cognition Learning & Arousal (CLeAr) Research Group

We study how our minds, learning, and physiological responses intertwine. We measure skin conductance (electrodermal activity) to understand how cognitive and emotional processes, like learning Finnish, affect sweat gland activity.
Research group

Computing Education Research

Computing Education Research (CER) group studies education in the computing context.
Research group

Education, texts and technologies

The research group conducts interdisciplinary research on the relationships between education, texts and technologies.
Research group

Embodied Eureka

Research Society for Affective Flow and Aesthetics of Experience in Clinical Interactions
Research group

ESSE - Eco-social sustainability and education

Research of the Ecosocial sustainability and education team ESSE explorers the questions of ecological and social sustainability in education
Research group

FinETS: Finland's Eye-Tracking Researchers' Seminar

Eye-Tracking Researchers' Seminar
Research group

Guidance and Counselling Education and Research Unit

Education and Research Group on Guidance

Research projects related to the strategic core field

Project

3D STEAM

“Accelerating STEAM-related Knowledge and Skills via 3D Modelling and 3D Printing”
Project

AASIS - Automatic assessment of spoken interaction in a second language

The AASIS project (Automatic assessment of spoken interaction in second language) develops automatic assessment of spoken interaction for Finnish learners.
Project

AdaptGuide - Adapting teacher guidance for different grades in technology-enhanced science and mathematics problem solving

2nd, 4th, and 6th grade students use of the digital learning environment in mathematics and science and pre-service teachers' ways of guiding the students
Project

AHJO - Individual and organisatory development of Academic wellbeing

Academic wellbeing in an individual and organisatory perspective
Project

AI projects in the Innokas Network

Research on AI projects in basic education and early childhood education in the Innokas Network
Project

AIWARE

Competencies for using artificial intelligence in the classrooms
Project

Antiracism in Finnish Teacher Education (ANTO)

Antiracism in Teacher Education
Project

ARONI - Argumentative online inquiry in building students' knowledge work competences

Aroni-research project
Project

Assessment of Undergraduate Students’ Learning Outcomes in Finland (KAPPAS 2)

Assessment of Undergraduate Students’ Learning Outcomes in Finland (KAPPAS 2) investigates undergraduate and graduate students’ generic skills and the development of these skills during studies in Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences.
Project

Asymmetric Encounters: Intersubjectivity and the Sense of Boundaries

The project argues that our subjective sense of boundaries is multilayered and potentially includes tensions between the layers. The project is theoretical and it makes use of philosophical, psychoanalytic and psychological resources.
Project

Big Brother supports and supervises? Student experience of assessment in lower secondary school

The ethnographic project Isoveli (Big Brother) explores what assessment and feedback look like from the perspective of a secondary school student
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Brain-wide memory consolidation in sleep studied with simultaneous electrophysiology and ultra-quiet zero-echo time fMRI

Research Council of Finland research project 2023-2027

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Language, culture and society

The focus on language, culture and society is on human activity in all its diversity. The focus is on linguistic and cultural practices in everyday life, the functioning of communities and institutions, and processes of change.

Physical activity, health and wellbeing

The aim is to increase scientific knowledge to support the promotion of physical activity and health and to achieve the individual and societal benefits of physical activity.
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